I noticed that a part of the English version of the story was missing, so I reuploaded it so you are still able to fully enjoy it! Have fun reading!

My sequel to ''Tyina's Big But Small Secret'' and ''So Good You'll Melt''
Lay in "Sea Seat Struggle!"

It is dark in Tyina's bedroom. The Diapered Tigress and I are asleep. Suddenly, the wooden front door slowly opens, and caregiver Vanessa enters softly. I am the first one to notice, and I open my eyes: "Hi, Vanessa" "Hey, Lay" replies Vanessa, "Did I wake you up? Sorry sweetheart. Did you sleep well?" I nod and rub the sleep out of my eyes with my front paws. Then Tyina also wakes up: "Huh... h-hey, Vanessa... Great to see you" The tigress also gets a pat on her head from the caregiver. Then Vanessa walks over to the white closet and comes out with a bright orange package of diaper pants, and says, "You know what I thought of yesterday, guys? We could go to the beach! Do you like that?" Tyina and I step onto the floor at the same time, she from the bed, I from the changing table. ''Oh yes, I like a day at the beach'' says Tyina. "Oh, uh, yes, I do too" I add, "but I don't like to be there very long either. But, I will come with you! I like beach walks!'' ''Well, alright'' laughs Vanessa as she places the orange package in the middle of the bed and opens it, ''let's both of you put on a clean diaper for a start'' One by one, Tyina and I lie on our backs on the bed and we're changed into a new, comfortable diaper pants. Then we both climb off the bed. As soon as we are on the floor, Tyina suddenly says: ''I... feel something itchy...'' ''Oh, my girl'' responds Vanessa, ''do you have to pee already?'' ''No, I'm dry’’ says Tyina. "Now I can feel it too, Tyina" I say, "and I feel... I feel like I'm being squeezed in or pushed down by an unknown power" "It must be the new kind of diaper, guys'' Vanessa soothes, ''good. Shall we go?" We nod. "Oh, wait a minute" says Vanessa suddenly, "I can't find my car keys anywhere. Bummer... I'm going to search for them, then you can play a game together on your Nintendo in the meantime'' And Vanessa walks away, comes back with two red and blue game consoles, and then goes looking for the keys.

Now Tyina and I are together in bed playing a game of Mario Kart against each other. The funny characters on the screens race in their karts through beautiful worlds. Suddenly Tyina pauses the race and says to me in astonishment: "Hey... TY, look what's happening to us" I put my own computer on the bed, and look around me. Suddenly the bed is all big...! I feel something itchy inside me. I look at my white wolf paws, and I can't believe my eyes! I'm sure that a while ago I could hit the edges of the bed with both my front and hind legs, but suddenly I cannot do that anymore! "We... We're shrinking!" I shout in surprise, "we're shrinking, both of us!" Meanwhile, I see Tyina looking in amazement at her back, and then studying her own legs. "You're absolutely right, TY!" she confirms, "we're getting younger! Come on, quick, let's see Vanessa, maybe she knows what's going on'' Tyina gets off the bed, and I hear her nappy pants sliding across the fabric. I climb off the bed too and hurry after her. We leave our computers and look for Vanessa.

Three minutes pass. We still haven't found Vanessa. She is not in the toilet room, not in the halls of the building, nor in any of the other rooms whose doors are not locked. Finally, Tyina tells me that we should look outside. In the meantime, we have both shrunk to such an extent that we look like elementary schoolchildren! When we arrive at the large, glass front doors of the lobby, Tyina and I only manage to pull down the golden door handle by hanging on it with one paw each. That says enough, doesn’t it? Now that the door is open, we both run out. How lucky, Vanessa is just walking up. "Vanessa!" I shout, "We-" "Guys!" she replies immediately, surprised, "what's happening to you?" The woman squats down in front of us, so we can both lean against each of her knees. "We..." I gasp, "we are... we're getting smaller...!'' ''I see, guys'' replies Vanessa, ''how did that happen?'' ''I have no idea'' Tyina sighs as she sits down, ''maybe it's because of the diapers we're wearing right now?'' "Oh, dear children" soothes Vanessa. She gets up again: "Come with me, and we'll see what we can do about it" We both restlessly follow Vanessa back into the lobby building. Tyina walks ahead of me, up the many stairs, and I can hardly climb the long stone spiral staircase. In the meantime we have become a lot younger. Finally Vanessa, Tyina, and I arrive at Tyina's living room, and Vanessa lets us walk in through the door. "Well" says Tyina, "I can't get my head above the changer anymore! This isn't good" Vanessa helps us onto the changing table one by one, and takes off both of our diaper pants. "D'aww, you kids stop shrinking now?" she says worriedly, "soon you'll not even be able to walk anymore!" "Well, I alweady could as a puppy, Vanessa" I answer, "yoo too, Tyina?'' The tigress, who has been put down next to me on her beige-colored, striped back, slowly shakes her head: ''No... I didn't learn it until I was about two years old, if I remember correctly'' Now that our diapers have been removed, the itchy feeling finally disappears from our bodies. I inform Tyina, and she concludes, "So it's because of the diapers. I think we were both put in shrinking diapers a little while ago; when we were changed by Vanessa this morning, I mean. Those kinds of diapers, if I'm right, are always in those sturdy orange-colored packages" Then she looks at Vanessa, who has just returned to the changing table with one of those packages under her right arm, a purple one, this time. "How cute you are, kids!" she cries, "let's see if you will be able to fit THESE now..." Tyina and I are both lying on our backs on the dresser of the table, waiting, while Vanessa puts the purple package on the large bed and opens it. I see a large number on the front of the package: A four. "Diaper size FOUR?" I say in astonishment, "Are we that liddle alweady?!" Tyina shrugs, "Maybe we are, TY. Just wait and see" When I instinctively slide my hind legs through the holes of the diaper, I am totally surprised. It’s fitting! "Tyina, it actua'wy fits me!" I exclaim. Then it's Tyina's turn to be changed. The diaper pants she gets to wear also fits perfectly! "M-Me too! I-It fits me too!" Tyina stutters, "do you know what this means, TY?" I look at her. When Tyina realizes that I can't answer her question, she says it herself: "This means that we're toddlers already!" She seems less shocked than I currently am. Tyina is rather surprised by the situation. But then, I suddenly realize that this could also mean lots of fun! Didn't Vanessa tell us some time ago that we were going to the beach? Well, maybe we're able to make use of our current ages! "How... how old are we actua'wy wight now?" I ask Vanessa. "Oww, I think..." Vanessa says slowly, "five? Four, maybe you are already three years old!" She carefully lifts us off the changing table and carries us out with both arms through the room door, down the spiral staircase. In the meantime, Vanessa has tucked the purple diaper package into a large shopping bag that she has then slipped over her shoulder. We are carried all the way down, and until then, Tyina and I cling to Vanessa's shoulders as best we can.

Once we're at the bottom of the staircase, Vanessa puts us on the ground one by one, asking us to come after her. Outside, we see a small green car parked in the nearby parking lot. Vanessa leads us there, opens one of the passenger doors and tells us to sit on the seat in the back of the car. "Well, children" she begins, while we both climb onto the back seat, "now you both sit up straight, then I'll put your seat belts on you" Just like Tyina, I flop down onto the soft leather with the bottom of my crinkly nappy pants. Vanessa notices that I can barely get my head above the side window, and she says: "Oh. Lay, I see you need an elevation. Just get up for a moment and I'll grab a seat for you" I straighten up, move away from my seat, and wait. After rummaging around in the back of her car, Vanessa reappears, wearing a leather seat with plastic railings. She then attaches it to the large back seat with some seat belts. Then she picks me up and puts me into the seat. "Well, let's strap you in..." she mumbles. I get a hard, narrow belt, which is fastened from one side of my waist to my shoulder on the other. I sit down. "Er... do I have to be in a seat too, Vanessa?" asks Tyina. "Well, I don't think you need that, girl" replies Vanessa, "as far as I can tell, you just barely come out with your head above the edge of the door. It is allowed however, if you want to'' ''Well, I am already such a big toddler who cannot keep her diaper dry'' jokes Tyina, ''I don't mind if I have to be in a seat too'' And so Vanessa goes to see if she has another child seat in the back. Fortunately, she has. And when Tyina is safe and sound in her seat, Vanessa gets behind the wheel and we drive towards the beach.

Tyina and I have been sitting from our seats for about four minutes, each looking out through their own window. In the meantime, we talk about what things we'll do on the beach; whether there are other kids we can have fun with; whether the waves will be nice but not too wild. And maybe we can have ourselves something tasty on a terrace at the end of the day! "Eh... Vanessa" I say, patting my diaper pants with a paw, "I fink I have tah' p-pee" "Oh dear" replies Vanessa as she looks at me through the rearview mirror, ''do you really have to go that bad? Hold it for a moment, we're almost there. You think you can do that?" I nod. But just then, I see that Tyina next to me is struggling to keep it in, so she has to let it all out right away. Her nappy pants start to thicken, then Tyina feels it getting soggy and starting to shrink. Vanessa sighs. Not out of irritation, but out of concern. Well, when you're that small you often can't help it. Dazed, the poor toddler tigress looks at her plastic seat, which is now also getting wet. "Well, don't worry, dearies" comforts Vanessa, "look! We're finally there!" I pat Tyina on the back, but I have to be careful not to wet half the back seat myself as well. Then we feel the car coming to a halt and Vanessa opens the door on Tyina's side. "Aww, poor girl..." she soothes. She takes out a tissue from a cover located next to the airbags and begins to slowly pat Tyina's lower body and the wet part of the child's seat and rear seats. When she's done, she releases both of us from our child seats by unclipping the buckles that are tied around our bellies. She does this using those red push buttons, which you usually find in cars. Tyina is the first to get out of the car, and immediately she jumps onto the hot, dusty ground, landing onto her wet diaper pants ("Cough! Ouch!"). Then, I also get out of the car, and I land safely on the ground with all four white legs. The bright sunlight blinds me, and when I squeeze and open them again, I see Tyina being lifted by Vanessa. "Are you coming too, Lay?" asks Vanessa, "I see a toilet cubicle over there, I will change you both there!" Just as I want to take a step, I feel something. Something warm is flowing down my fur between my hind legs, and I can feel my nappy pants getting heavier. ''Oh...'' I say softly, ''well, it wouldn't be long be'fore I had tah' pee too, and I'm glad I managed tah' hold it up while we were still in the car'' I'm talking to myself, because Vanessa has already gone to the toilets with Tyina. I go after them.

As I walk towards the toilet room, I look in amazement in the direction of the beach. There is no one here at all! The beach is completely empty. All I can see is an inflatable band with a flamingo head, with sunglasses drawn on it; an abandoned ball consisting of a yellow-colored substance; and a small, brightly colored toy truck lying on its side and partially covered in sand. "So a number of child'wen have al'weady been here" I mumble, "but appa'wently they left their stuff behind..." I decide not to pay attention to the toys anymore, because I hear Vanessa from out of the toilet room, calling my name: "Lay? Come on! Here we are, in here! Come on, kid!" Apparently I was distracted for a moment. Finally I walk into the building consisting of thick brick, and that's where I see Vanessa, who has taken the shoulder bag with her and is now drying and changing little Tyina on a fold-out changing table. "There, there, Tyina" says Vanessa, "come on now, lie down on your back. ...well done. Who's a big girl? Yes, you are! Alright, here we go..." Vanessa takes off the little tigress's wet diaper, cleans her with a towel, and finally helps her with her hind paws through the holes of a slightly different-looking diaper. Finally, Vanessa gives Tyina, who playfully hits the air with her front paws, a loving boop with her nose. "Well, that's one ready!" says Vanessa, lifting Tyina from the changing table and putting her down on the tiled floor. Then, Vanessa looks at me: "Ah. Lay, there you are! Come on, then you'll also get your swimming diaper, so you'll be able to enjoy playing in the water, with the other children" ''There ARE no other child'wen" I contradict. "Eh, there ...aren't?" asks Vanessa, surprised. "No" I say, as I'm being put onto the changing table and, like Tyina, put on a swimming diaper, "there rilly is no one there. All I saw was a yellow soccer ball, an inflatable floater, and a toy t'wuck" Vanessa tightens up my swimming diaper and then sets me down near Tyina, on the smooth tile floor. Then she walks around the corner, steps out through the doorway, and sees exactly what I just mentioned about things outside. Tyina and I follow Vanessa into the hot sun. "Well, that's a bummer" says Vanessa, surprised, and puts her hands on her hips, "you would think there are a lot of people walking around on this beach, with this nice weather?" Then we set ourselves in motion. Until now, all three of us were on a dusty, grainy ground, but it gets grittier the more steps we take. Eventually, we're walking side by side on nothing but scorching hot sand. I stop for a moment when I think I can spot something elongated and red in the distance. Up to this point, I thought I saw a slim man standing there in a red raincoat, but as I run towards it, it turns out to be just a folded red brolly tightened to a stick! And of the white metal that makes up the pole planted in the sand, I thought they were the "man's" white pants. Children and their imagination!

Tyina sees that I finally get it and starts laughing: "TY, that's not a man, silly, that's a parasol!" I look back and smile back shyly at Tyina. Vanessa thinks it's funny too. Meanwhile, Tyina has discovered the yellow soccer ball and the inflatable band with the flamingo head: "Guys! Look at what I found! With this we can play in the water!" I curiously approach the tigress and my short white tail swings excitedly back and forth. "Are you sure these things don't belong to other people, kids?" Vanessa warns us. "Well, where do you see other people?" is Tyina's rude yet well-meant answer, and she picks up the yellow ball with one paw. ''Well'' explains Vanessa, ''soon people may come back here to pick up the stuff they might have left behind, and they won't be happy when they see us just playing with it, will they?'' But as soon as she sees our disappointed faces, she makes a decision: "You know what? We play with it for a little while, and then we put all these things next to the toilet room; that's where I just saw a low metal tray on the floor, and I think that's where the found objects should be" Tyina and I both sit down in the warm sand in our thick swimming diapers and give each other a high-five. Then Tyina, with the yellow ball put in her mouth, runs away from us, and I run after her. However, I don't pay attention to the plastic toy truck lying in the sand, and I get stuck on it with a hind paw. Then I fall forward and plop down in the sand with my belly. Vanessa wants to help me get up, but can't hide her chuckle. I scramble to my feet and then shake the sand out of my white fur. I think there's sand in my diaper. I put a front paw in it, but no. No sand in my diaper. Phew. I look to the right, and that's when I suddenly notice Tyina walking towards the waves with her little yellow ball. "Can I get in there too, V'nes'sa?" I ask the caregiver, pulling impatiently on her pants with one paw. But Vanessa doesn't pay any attention to me. The only words she shouts, are: "Tyina! Tyina, come back! Come back right now!" But the little tigress doesn't hear her shout. She's only occupied with her yellow ball and the waves, which are getting rougher with every second.

Startled, I watch Vanessa dropping her entire bag into the sand, running away from me and stepping into the cold water with her shoes still on. The next moment, a big wave appears on the horizon. I could swear, that wave is easily two meters high! Finally, I decide to come into action too, and now I too run towards the sea and jump into the water. The salt it contains stings my eyes as I conquer one wave after another. When Tyina finally hears Vanessa shout, she looks in the direction she thinks it's coming from. As a result, she doesn't see the MASSIVE wave coming, which effortlessly swallows both her and her ball whole, and drags her further into the open sea with great force! Then, as her final effort to survive, she does what any child would do in this situation: Tyina starts to kick and sway around wildly with all four paws. For a few seconds her head is submerged, and she desperately gasps for air when she finally manages to come to the surface again. Suddenly, she sees something big coming towards her very quickly. "A... A shark!" she exclaims. The monstrosity grasps her tightly by the waist and drags her toward the beach. Terrified, Tyina finds herself with her head underwater once again, but as soon as she comes up again, she discovers to her great relief that she was held all the while by the hands of our brave caregiver Vanessa. In the meantime, I managed to gather all of my courage and I'm moving through the undulating water as best I can. "Tyina!" I shout, startled, "Tyina, are yoo al'wight?!" Tyina can only cough, and she can feel Vanessa lift her, with her thrown over one shoulder, with brisk strides through the sea water, and eventually get out of the sea, onto the dry land. Then, Vanessa takes the little tigress off her shoulder and puts the little one down in the sand a few feet from the dangerously billowing sea water. "Oh, my sweet girl!" she comforts, "what in the world were you doing? You almost drowned!" In the meantime, I have also come out of the water, shaking my soggy white fur dry. Now Tyina is slowly opening her eyes. "V-Vanessa..." she groans, "you... you s-saved me..." ''Girl, come here" Vanessa soothes, "you really didn't hear me call from the coast, did you?'' Tyina shakes her head, but she is too paralyzed to say anything else. Then she coughs a few times. She looks to her left and sees me sitting down close to her. I'm just as wet as she is. "Are yoo 'kay, Tyina?" I ask again. "I-I'm... (Cough!) ...I'm f-fine, TY..." Tyina groans. Then, the little tigress turns to Vanessa: "I... I thought... (Cough!) ...a shark approached me" ''That was V'nes'sa twying to save you" I explain. Now Tyina manages to turn around onto her stomach, so that with her tail in our direction, she ends up lying in the sand on her belly. Then, Tyina slowly gets up and shakes herself dry as best she can. Vanessa has to take a step back to avoid getting wet! Finally, Tyina turns and starts leaning exuberantly against Vanessa's left leg. "Thank you" Tyina sighs, "if it wasn't for you two, surely I would've drowned!" Then she hugs me, and I hold my friend tight and hug her. "It's okay, dear" comforts Vanessa as she pats the little tigress on the back, "but be wary when playing in the surf – it has all the power required to pull you in in the blink of an eye, y'know" I let go of Tyina and start thinking: Would Tyina know what a surf is? Do I actually know what a surf is? It doesn't matter. Tyina is safe now. That's what matters the most right now. "Are you coming, kids?" asks Vanessa as she walks away from us, "I'll put you both into clean diapers in the toilet room, and then we'll go home" I look at Vanessa in amazement: "B-Buh'...wewen't the thwee of us going to eat som'fing before we left?" "Oh, yes, of course. I forgot" Vanessa says, "you're absolutely right, Lay. Well, let's get back to the car, and from there we'll go find a restaurant. And- Oh, of course, my bag. Let's pick it up before I accidentally leave it behind" I follow Vanessa, and Tyina walks after me. The three of us walk across the beach and head back to the parking lot.

There, in one of the dusty parking spots, we see Vanessa's green car. Several windows are now covered with dust, and Tyina and I start coughing when Vanessa opens up the cargo area. She still has the bag on her shoulder. We see Vanessa pull out something big and black, before unfolding it before our very eyes. We now have a large black buggy in front of us, with a metal frame and four small hard plastic wheels. "So I brought this with me exclusively for you, kids" says Vanessa, "but now I'm going to put both of you into clean diaper pants first, because there's no doubt you need that very much right now" Originally, Vanessa wanted to change us inside the toilet room, because that's what she said to us when we were still on the beach. But right now, we no longer have to go all the way to the toilet room; right now, Vanessa has put the bag on the floor inbetween us, and she immediately takes out two nappy pants for us. One by one, Tyina and I lay down in the back of the car. We are stripped of the salty seawater in our furs with a towel, after which we both are put into dry diaper pants. "Come on, kids" Vanessa says, "get in the buggy and sit down, then the three of us will go and visit a nice little restaurant!" We both slide out of the back of the car while wearing our clean nappy pants. With no effort, Tyina and I then climb into the buggy, sinking into the soft leather seats in the process. "Are you ready?" Vanessa asks us. "Sure enough" Tyina sighs as we both relax, "we're truly melting away in our clean diapers" I totally agree with my bigger little friend! "Well then, let's go" Vanessa concludes. And she pushes the buggy in front of her. Tyina and I high-five each other from the buggy. On to the restaurant!

The cafe is not far away. After Vanessa has driven us in the buggy on a gravel path that connects the parking lot with an avenue of houses, I can quickly spot a few tables in front of a large house from my seat. Tyina and I are rolled up a wooden driveway in the buggy, so we can admire the metal dining tables from a closer perspective. How big everything is when you are two little children in a pram, right? ''It's as de'serted here as it was back on the beach'' I remark. "I didn't hear anyone on the beach either" adds Vanessa, "maybe everyone has gone to work and school!" ''Well'' says Tyina, ''if there was work to be done, then there would really be someone behind the bar'' Vanessa and I have to agree with the toddler tigress. Just then, we hear a voice from the open bar in the corner of the terrace: "Well hey there! Can I help you, ma'am?'' Vanessa looks in the direction of the bar, then sees a fat man in a kitchen outfit behind the wooden counter, waving at us. Then, she lifts both of us out of the buggy and approaches the bar with us each on one shoulder. "I wanted to order something tasty for me and these two children" she says. "Well, tell me what ya' wanna have" the man speaks in an exaggerated foreign language. I look at a colorful plate hanging from the ceiling inside, and I choose a rocket ice cream. Tyina points with her tiny claw at a popsicle that is depicted in the plate's upper right corner. Vanessa pays and accepts our selected treats for us. Then, Vanessa gives us the ice creams and walks to a high wooden table against the wall in a shadowy corner. And a few moments later, Vanessa is proudly watching us, in two white high chairs reserved exclusively for us, munching on our ice cream. "Oh, Lay, baby" she says when she sees a red orange-colored stream dripping down my chin and my tummy, "you're leaking" I look confused at the diaper pants I'm wearing: "I'm still d'wy, y'know'' Vanessa laughs. "No, honey" she says, ''I mean, your ice cream. It's melting" Then, I finally see what Vanessa means. Even before I can wipe my stomach with my empty paw, our caregiver has already cleaned me with a thin napkin that she has taken from the table. "I like my ice cream, Vanessa!" says Tyina, who's already almost finished with her popsicle, next to me. However, her mouth is also completely covered with the white and brown sticky remnants of the lollipop. The little tigress is also cleaned with a napkin by Vanessa. ''Yes? Do you like it?'' Vanessa asks. Tyina nods with satisfaction. "Do you like your ice cream too, Lay?" Vanessa asks me. "I wuv' it, V'nes'sa!" I answer. Once again, a bit of ice drips down my black nose and down my white chin. Vanessa cleans me with a new napkin. When Tyina and I both finish our ice creams, we are taken out of our white high chairs and put back into the buggy side by side. Eventually, Vanessa drives us off the terrace and back to the car, which is still waiting for us in the parking lot.

When we arrive at the bright green car in the parking lot, Vanessa checks our nappy pants, and Tyina and I lay down on our backs in the back of the car in order for Vanessa to do so. "Oh my, I messed my diaper again, Vanessa..." Tyina sighs, "I'm such a big, big baby, oh I am" "There, Tyina girl" Vanessa soothes. She takes a pair of nappy pants out of the open purple package, which she put away in the bottom of the buggy a couple moments ago, "you don't have to belittle yourself just because you're incontinent, do you?" But in the end, Vanessa understands why Tyina feels that way about herself, especially now that we've been regressed to mere toddlers. I feel with a paw on the front of my own diaper pants, which is now also wet. Every time I swallowed a piece of the popsicle, that piece melted in my stomach, and all that water has to go somewhere, right? After Vanessa has changed both of our diaper pants, she says that we can both sit on either side of the car in the back seat. So we do, and in no time we are neatly with our belts on, in our own child seats, in the back of the car. Finally, Vanessa folds up the buggy and puts it safely away in the cargo area. While Tyina and I chat in the backseat with our clean nappies on, Vanessa drives us back to the big city, and then lets us both get out of the car - with some help from Vanessa, of course. We then move towards the large glass doors of the Lobby Building. "While we were still shrinking, the two of us just couldn't reach the door handle, Vanessa" explains Tyina. "No" I add, "but then' we both jumped up to the golden handle an' hung on it togeddah. And then' it opened!" Vanessa laughs: "Well, now you don't have to do that, kids. I'll open the door for you. And in addition to that, you're way too small right now - you too, Tyina - to reach the door handle" Then, Vanessa opens the door so that all three of us can enter and conquer the spiral staircase. "Hey, kids, I can't do that as fast as you do" says Vanessa. But we are already scrambling upwards. Tyina calls me, because I have already progressed further than Vanessa and she. Then, I stop, and wait gently for Vanessa and Tyina to reach me. Next, the three of us continue our climb. Tyina catches up with me and is therefore the first to reach the door of her room as soon as we get there. Tyina sits down quietly and waits for Vanessa to open the room door for her - she is also too small at the moment to reach this door handle. After all three of us walked into the room, Vanessa closes the door behind her and puts the bag, which she still has over her shoulder, next to the bed in the room. "Well, children, I think I'll send you to bed" says Vanessa as she takes the diaper package out of her bag, "after all, you both must be tired, after such an unexpected experience on the beach" Tyina already climbs on top of the bed: "I'm not tired at all, you know" But a big yawn that follows gives her away. I have to admit that I also feel like going to sleep myself. Exhausted, I clamber up onto the big bed too and plop down on my stomach right next to my older little tigress friend. We both turn on our backs, and we feel Vanessa take off our nappy pants in exchange for some new ones. I look surprised when I find out that I am now the one who has wet his diaper. Tyina has remained dry since we slipped out of the cargo area of the green car, after our diaper check in the parking lot near the beach. "I fink..." I say to Tyina with a chuckle, "...that I'm now a widd'ler baby than yoo are wight now, Tyina" "D'aww, TY..." she replies, "it's fun sometimes, to feel that way, it really is. I don't mind. Everyone's unique, right?" I nod. Then, we are both picked up by Vanessa and placed at the pillow end of the bed. Finally, Vanessa tucks in both of us by putting the warm covers over us and saying good night.

The next morning begins with a series of faint rays of sunlight, illuminating the buildings of the city and just passing through the curtains and the window frame of Tyina's room. Tyina is the first to open her eyes. She looks aside and sees that I am still asleep. The Diapered Tigress looks at her paws and thinks to herself: "Well, would you look at that! We're big again! We're ourselves again! Have we grown back into adults last night?'' Tyina blinks sleep from her eyes, and then the front door of the room opens. Vanessa enters softly to check on her two little balls of fur. Only those two little balls of fur aren't so little anymore. Vanessa wants to tell Tyina that she is surprised to find us as adults again. But before she can do that, the tigress looks her in the eyes and whispers: "Shhh... TY's still asleep" That prevents Vanessa from finishing her sentence, but Tyina already knows what Vanessa was going to say. In the meantime, I also hear what is happening, but it doesn't bother me. I just keep sleeping. I have long noticed that our caretaker has entered the room. Eventually, I open my eyes anyway, and when I turn around, I see that Vanessa has stepped up to my side of the bed to strike both of us on the back. Now that she knows we are both awake, she's willing to say to us: "Aww, look... You're normal again, kids. You are grown-ups again'' Tyina turns on her back and pushes her half of the sheet off her. "Yes, we may be grown-ups again..." she says with a laugh, "...but still we couldn't keep ourselves dry last night. Not me, at least" I stretch: "I couldn't keep myself dry either, Tyina. Our nappy pants may have grown with us, but remember, we were toddlers before we grew, considering how clean our nappy pants are right now. Because, eh... they're not clean at all. Look'' And when I show Tyina and Vanessa my diaper pants, all three of us discover that I also peed in my diaper, just like Tyina. "I think you really had to go, because of that chocolate popsicle, Tyina" concludes Vanessa, "and you, Lay, you probably peed the last bit of your rocket ice cream in your diaper last night" Vanessa strokes us both, and then disappears into the diaper storage to come back with a new package. It's still completely closed, so it must be brand new. I also lie on my back now, and we hear the soft crinkling of two sturdy pants that Vanessa took out of the diaper package after ripping it open at the top. ''You both may have grown up again'' Vanessa speaks as she strokes both of us again, ''but I think...'' And she slowly puts on our nappy pants one by one: ‘’...both of you could use this very well still" Tyina and I nod. I can feel the thick white fabric of my nappy pants wrap around my waist. Then, just like this morning, I take a look at the diaper package and I see a digit on it again. This time, it's an eight. Tyina sees me looking at the digit and says: "Well TY, at least it's not a size four anymore, is it?" I nod. "Anyway" Tyina continues, "like Fyanna always said: No matter how big or small you are, there is always a diaper that fits you!" I nod again. And Tyina completes the sentence: "...and if you're able to fit it, you're able to wet it! Haha!" We both laugh. We simultaneously turn on our stomachs to stretch out and relax. Being so close to Tyina, I can't resist sniffing the fur coat of the Diapered Tigress with my cute black snout. "You smell very... salty" I say. Tyina smiles, and suddenly she remembers what happened to her this afternoon on the beach. "Thank you, TY" she says. "Er... do you consider it a compliment?" I ask, surprised. "No, TY" replies Tyina, "no, I mean, thank you for saving me from drowning in the midst of all the sea water. And thank you too, Vanessa" I hug my tiger friend. But credit where credit is due, I actually think that Vanessa in particular played a big role in preventing Tyina's drowning as a toddler tiger cub. So while I give Tyina a good hug, I look over her beige striped shoulder, into the eyes of our caregiver Vanessa. "We are both grateful to you, Vanessa" I say. Vanessa's reaction is a loving pat on our heads. I promise Tyina, that because she's my friend, I'll take better care of her. In turn, Tyina promises me that she will be careful around the sea from now on, even though, interestingly, a tiger is the only cat that loves water. As a reminder of this adventure, Tyina now possesses the wonderful salty scent of the sea, and believe it or not: She's actually proud of it!

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